The latest name assigned to a tropical storm – Flossie – in the Eastern Pacific prompted more than a few raised eyebrows and ...

The World Meteorological Organization maintains a list of 21 hurricane names for each year. In especially busy years, a ...

This deep depression once intensifies into a cyclonic storm, it will be named as Cyclone Asna. Pakistan has provided the name, which means 'the one to be acknowledged or praised' in Urdu.

For example, if a tropical cyclone formed on December 28th, it would take the name from the previous season’s list of names. If a storm formed in February, it would be named from the following ...

As hurricanes continue to barrel through the Atlantic Ocean, new names like Helene and Milton often make headlines. Read on to see how and why storms are named, and when they’re no longer used.

The reason hurricanes and cyclones have human names is that the original meteorologist to name them, Clement Wragge, began naming them after politicians he didn't like.

The biggest example of a retired hurricane name in the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 hurricane which devastated Louisiana and other southern states and killed almost 1,900 people in 2005.

But what are they exactly, and is there a difference between cyclones, typhoons and hurricanes? More than 1,900 disasters have been attributed to tropical cyclones worldwide since 1970, resulting ...

Before that, storms mostly received names retrospectively and they could vary like the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane or the Great New England Hurricane of 1938.

First it was Invest 97L, then it was Potential Tropical Cyclone Four. Late Friday as it strengthened it became Tropical Depression Four. It became Tropical Storm Debby on Saturday and could ...

Once it passed the 39 mph (62 kph) mark on Saturday, it got a name: Tropical Storm Debby. If a tropical storm ‘s winds reach 74 mph ... Those around India are called cyclonic storms.